Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-10-25
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ger on the train tho other day.
mo, sir;f thiS "! the':C. r. R. R., -
replied the conductor :,.WelI. what I
want to Know is, which We are likely to
reach first, the end Of the century, or
the end of this roud?" lapguially re-
marked the weary traveller.
When in China, in the early days,
before he had become bald. headed uu-
der the long drawn out agony Of a trip
on the g. r. R. b.. the writer OF these
notes had daily evidence of the pro-
found veneration for Old age which
characterizes the followers of Confu-
cius. This it is, that impels the benign
Mongolian to crawl around the corner.
bag his head in his coat-sleeve. and
weep, when he sees the, wheezy, old
locomotives Of the G. p. =. R., still kept
in active service.
Scientists have shown that the. snail
traverses mile in fourteen days, but
they have not shown whether. it, ia
reason or instinct which prompts the
snail of migratory habits to take the line
of the g. P. R, R., as that on which it
is least liable to be overtaken by me-
chanical appliances, or other adverse
circumstances. GO.
;, The r. r. Co., is required by law to
deliver the mail right inside Of every
postoffice within eighty rods Of the line,
but the deuce of it is, 80 far as Elko is
CONCERNED, at the time the mails are due
the trains are never within eighty miles,
let alone eighty rods, Of the postoffice.
"DammitalH. do you think came to
this country to put in the. rest Of my
days on blawsted railroad" snid an
frnscible Briton7to the conductor of u
west bound train last week. "Why if
I'd known your trains travelled no fast
,sr than this, I'd have gone to San
Francisco by way of 'Ong Kong, or
Horsetralia.
A bereav.d widow, who took the re-
mains Of her husband by the G. P. R.
Il. to Ogden for interment, wrote to her
friends that she was deeply touch ed by
the respect shown TO the late lamented
by the R. r. Co. in running the train
conveying his rsvered remains at most
solemn funeral pace. Poor woman,
It is to BIZ hoped no one will deprive her
of the consolation she thus derived
from bliss'ul ignorance of the fnct that
this. :"sQlenp funereal .pacs" IL the
regular ev'ry day, all the year around,
rate at which tbis Company totes it's
p .ssengers, dead or alive.
=, A passenger or Thursday nights east
bound train recounts how, having turned
in, he dreamed that he awoke just
where his journey COMMENCED and says
that, when he really did awake, be
found himself on his knees. giving
thanks that he was not on the other
tside of where he ktarted from. Con-
sidering that this train was only eleven
hours late, il is difficult to dingnose and
locate the influences which gave birth
to these baok.traok vagaries in the COM
atoso mind Of the siYeping traveller.
II those who peopleA the earth a
century hack could indulge in q tran
slept glimpse Of O. Ps R. r, train,
they might be surprised at the snoring,
putting, kissing apparatus, whioir i'm
parts to the the train what. little motion
it possesses; but they would be still
more surprised to see their progeny
wasting time and money on such o
means Of locomotion, when fraction OF
the fare, invested in q spawned cayuss,
would get the traveller over the ground
much more rapidly, and leave him the
c,yuse At the end 81 his Journey. i
u. l,sthsF mora than year ago tbis
writer was present, as the represents
tive OF b MARITIME joorhats at the pre-
ssnsattop yot4 q .tsstweniSl tn CAPTAIN
McpIickan Of the. .Cunsrd line on tho
lsonplsjop of bis sigh. hHupdredsh
sausage across oths Atanhoij and he